Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.